If your finger is anywhere near the pulse my finger is on for the interwebnets, you will have noticed there was a lot of uproar about the Diggbar that was released a little while ago. If you arent familiar with the Diggbar and why it is an affront to Bob, look through Daring Fireball. There are more than a few posts on why it is bad.
Back? good. You can see why the Diggbar is bad, but there are other sites out there that don’t seem to gain the same ire that digg did. The one I have been noticing lately is ow.ly I am not going to get in to the whole “link shortner” debate.. I use them, you use them, if you want links to fit in twitter, you have to use them. Fine. My gripe is there is another service out there that frames content with their bar.
My guess is ow.ly slid under the rador with the whole Diggbar fiasco because they are much smaller than digg. To me, they look like they do the same thing.. digg frames content with their url, ow.ly frames content with their url. Apples to fucking apples.
Is this something I have to worry about with my site? In reality, no. I know I am putting on this horse and donkey show for my amusement alone. It is the concept that riles me up. That, and the fact that I want to be the first to complain about something for once…
